Movie fans who think Idris Elba should play 007 in the next James Bond film just received a major boost for their cause. The British actor was heading to Buckingham Palace with his adorable mother Friday morning when he stopped to post a quick snap for his Twitter followers. Looking every bit dapper and well-dressed in a tailored suit with a black skinny tie, the snap is more undeniable evidence that Elba would make a fantastic Bond — despite what Anthony Horowitz thinks.

Last year, the latest Bond author responded to the growing support for Elba as Bond by claiming the 43-year-old The Wire actor was “too street” to be a crime-fighting international playboy with a love for martinis. “For me, Idris Elba is a bit too rough to play the part,” Horowitz told the Daily Mail on the actor playing the iconic character. “It’s not a color issue. I think he is probably a bit too ‘street’ for Bond. Is it a question of being suave? Yeah.”

Horowitz later apologized for his comments, tweeting that he was actually referring to Elba’s Luther character. “I chose the word ‘street’ as Elba’s gritty portrayal of DCI John Luther was in my mind but I admit was a poor choice of word. I am mortified to have caused offense,” he explained at the time.

Reissuing the same Double-O numbers as identifying codes for a specific caliber of agent within MI-6 makes perfect sense.
Reissuing the cover name “James Bond” to different agents, presumably after a previous one has died in the field, is moronic.
#DifferentActorsSameCharacter

Ian Fleming already covered this. Bond is just 1 of a number of 00s… 005, 006 and 008 were mentioned in past storylines.

but the problem with making “James Bond” a title as opposed to an individual name is two-fold:

#1 – There have already been 6 actors playing Bond on film, plus several others on other platforms if you count the voiceovers who did the audio books who were different from the film actors. there was no want to “title-ize” Bond then. Connery, Moore, Lazenby, Brosnan, etc… they were Bond and judged according to what they brought to role.

#2 – Reducing “James Bond” to moniker that’s passed down essentially says a Black actor is so incongruent, so fundamentally lesser and so unrelatable to who James Bond is and what James Bond is about that only way we can justify it is to distance him from the ‘REAL BOND’ by making him a substitute teacher version of Bond.

That’s stunningly offensive.

We buy in on aliens and monsters of all ilk, but a Black James Bond is still too much.

So SirNose has managed to claim that a fan theory about a fictional character is actually racist, even though the theory has been used to describe several white male heterosexuals (the world’s most protected class), and also, by decades, predates any discussion about a black actor playing the role at all. Seems legit.

Lead actor in Lucifer would be good imo. However, I think idris Elba is still the best actor for the part. He’s gorgeous, has a slight “scoundrel” air about him, smart, the right age, and most of all, a very good actor.